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This paper discusses a regulatory technique that consists of the use of a controlled chain reaction to influence social and economic processes. It claims that this method was employed by Hungarian control agencies to further centralize the farm sector in the 1970s. Section I of the paper presents three versions of this technique. Section II shows how the institutional structure of Hungarian agriculture made the application of this technique possible.
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Bodo, P. Controlled chain reaction as a regulatory technique. International Advances in Economic Research 2, 47–57 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295156
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295156